"The leak of the dossier to everyone in the world means it does not truly benefit Russian interests at all. Just leaking it and embarrassing the president-elect, with no real proof or ‘smoking gun’ evidence attached and no ulterior geostrategic purpose achieved, means this story will fade away and be replaced by some other titillating report. To a large degree, this has already happened. Thus, the Russians have lost what they hoped to be tremendous strategic leverage behind the scenes and down the road. Ergo, no victory for Putin.

Americans still trying to position it as a victory for Putin are simply not astute in the ways of real geopolitics and strategy. And that applies even for the supposed Russian experts here in America, who do so much advising today to media and governmental elites. The current state of ‘Russian expertise’ in America is extremely disappointing and dull. We currently live in times that have Washington DC and the Slavic Studies community obsessed with pushing a very narrow and very cliché orthodox narrative about the Russian Federation and its motivations. That narrative pushes the idea that the only thing Kremlin officials do is to sit around tables recklessly and illogically pondering ways to ‘surpass’ the United States with no real calculation for national interests. Appending that two-page summary to the formal presidential briefing is confirmation of how far this relationship-environment between Washington and Moscow has fallen. The United States Intelligence Community basically felt reluctantly compelled to discuss what was nothing more than a de facto TMZ gossip report. That fact alone signals that the immediate future of Russian-American relations will remain dark and stormy."

"But whether on its own or with others, Germany is showing signs of growing more comfortable with embracing a bigger military role, a gradual but distinct shift away from an instinctive pacifism that took hold starting in 1945, and a post-Cold War tendency to shrink the nation’s military.

The shift started becoming publicly apparent in 2014, when Germany’s president and foreign and defense ministers all urged an increased global security role for the country at the annual Munich Security Conference. Weeks later, Russia’s leader, President Vladimir V. Putin, annexed Crimea from Ukraine.

Since then, Germany has responded by helping to build a NATO rapid response force in Eastern Europe, leading the diplomacy efforts in Ukraine, and training and arming Kurdish pesh merga battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Now, a new government strategy document, the first such “White Book” in 10 years, is being prepared. It is likely both to bolster Germany’s role on the world stage — beyond its traditional sphere of activity in Europe — and to talk explicitly of military contributions." German rearmament 2016

"The German government is using the mounting conflict between NATO and Russia to massively rearm the military. This is underscored by an article in the latest edition of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel.The title page of the article sums it up. Defence minister Ursula Von der Leyen stands before a tank smiling, surrounded by German army soldiers armed to the teeth. This is the gruesome smile of German militarism, which is attempting to return to the world stage after two world wars and horrific crimes."

The possible role of the German Intelligence in the current Trump - Russians Affair | "But what is really needed at this point is a full and complete debrief for the American people from Trump himself." - WP

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M.N.: "Trump Affair" как "Германская многоходовка": тупая, неуклюжая, бессильно-лицемерно-мстительная по замыслу, и искусно, методично выполненная по технике. Результаты говорят сами за себя. Кому выгодно? Кому нужно? Что получилось? For the Germans, it looks like, this is also the obvious and obsessive replay of their heart breaking national drama, which they still try to digest: the causes, origins, and the development of the Totalitarianism (most recently and notably, the Hitlerism). The Russians have much less problems with this issues, it seems, although they suffered just as much, if not much more from the mirror historical phenomenon of Stalinism, possibly because the psycho-historically, they have much less of the reflective, mores-seeking, protestant-tinged conflict sets about the dilemmas of Domination and Submission, and all powerful, on the border with the tyrannical, in the rays of the Golden Horde, paternalistic oppressive state, a long historical memory and the pathological nostalgia for the times of the Mongol-Tatar yoke, which is there own drama, in the need of obsessive-compulsive replay, in a joint poltico-historical festival with their main European neighbor and interlocutor, especially recently, the always hated and the always loved by them Germany. Some nice show: "The stupid, crude, and aggressive Ivan tried to fuck up the good old, but getting somewhat senile, and excessively trusting Uncle Sam, by installing their own man as the President. But the good old Germanic spirit of democracy and the traditions of the honest civil service took over, and victoriously saved the country, the "second Germany". Everyone lived very happily thereafter and continued to make their regular monthly deposits to their "Deutchland-Uber-Alles" bank accounts. Gloria! In excel-sis! Sis! Sis! SOS?! SOS?! The end results, so far, are:

Clips from the Official Video (NOT THE FULL VIDEO) .................................

Lyrics ...........

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture .
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Russia should join NATO: the benefits for the Global Security are enormous

To reformulate Lord Ismay's phrase: 1) Take Russia in, 2) Continue keeping Germany down, 3) Assert and exercise the US leadership position within the NATO as a unifying and directing force and vector.

"Ловец Человеков"

Connected? The halo is there. And the Book is there. And the disciples are there. But where is the Light of Understanding, in this big curved dark tunnel of a vision? Where is the big red dot? Where is the new beginning?

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Hillary Clinton and rock group Pussy Riot

"Great to meet the strong & brave young women from #PussyRiot, who refuse to let their voices be silenced in #Russia. 1:09 PM - 4 Apr 2014" - Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton tweeted a picture Friday of her posing with members of the anti-Vladimir Putin punk rock group Pussy Riot. Clinton met with the women during the "Women in the World Summit" in New York. The group has emerged as chief opponents of Putin, and three members were jailed in 2012 after an anti-Putin performance at a church. The tweet has been re-tweeted almost 10,000 times.